So I grabbed one of the Panasonic DMR-PWT550GZ Blu-ray player/MyFreeview recorders for cheap in the Boxing Day sales. Got it to replace a bedroom DVD player while adding Blu-ray player and Freeview recording capabilities.

So far so good.

However, went to play a DVD for my 3-year old yesterday and found it is locked to region 4 for DVD, (was a region 2 disc I was trying). Anyone here got one of these to be multizone for DVD? My DVD's are a mix of 4, 2 and 1 so really needs to be multizone. Don't care about Blu-ray as mine are all Region B anyway. Have Googled around and seems the standard remote multizone hacks wont work on these units. Instead it seems it will need to be taken to a Panasonic agent to be 'multizoned' using the service remote. Anyone had this done? Or any idea who might be able to do it?